New York A 5764: Replaces the word addict or addicts and the word addiction with the words persons with substance use disorder or a variation thereof

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A05764 Summary:

BILL NOA05764 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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Amd §35, Judy L; amd §§32.05, 32.09 & 19.01, Ment Hyg L; amd §§3302, 3331, 3350, 3351, 3372, 2897 & 3450, Art
33 Title V Title Head, Pub Health L; amd §396-h, County L; amd §121, Gen City L; amd §3028-a, Ed L; amd
§400.00, Pen L; amd §63, Rail L; amd §303, Soc Serv L; amd §5, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L; amd §10, Emerg Ten
Prot Act of 1974; amd §28, Gen Con L

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Replaces certain appearances of the words addict, addicts and addiction with the words person with a substance use disorder, person with a mental health disorder, person with co-occurring disorder, person in recovery, or a variation thereof.

Go to top A05764 Actions:

BILL NOA05764 

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02/20/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

03/04/2026enacting clause stricken

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Go to topA05764 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5764

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, the mental hygiene law, the public
 health law, the county law, the general city law, the education law,
 the penal law, the railroad law, the social services law, the emergen-
 cy housing rent control law, the emergency tenant protection act of
 nineteen seventy-four and the general construction law, in relation to
 replacing certain appearances of the words addict, addicts, and
 addiction with the words person with a substance use disorder, person
 with a mental health disorder, person with co-occurring disorder,
 person in recovery, or variation thereof

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 35 of the judiciary
 2 law, as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 a. When a court orders a hearing in a proceeding upon a writ of habeas
 5 corpus to inquire into the cause of detention of a person in custody in
 6 a state institution, or when it orders a hearing in a civil proceeding
 7 to commit or transfer a person to or retain [him] such person in a state
 8 institution when such person is alleged to be [mentally ill, mentally
 9 defective or a narcotic addict] a person with a substance use disorder,
 10 a person with a mental health disorder, a person with co-occurring
 11 disorder, or a person in recovery, or when it orders a hearing for the
 12 commitment of the guardianship and custody of a child to an authorized
 13 agency by reason of the mental illness or developmental disability of a
 14 parent, or when it orders a hearing to determine whether consent to the
 15 adoption of a child shall be required of a parent who is alleged to be
 16 mentally ill or developmentally disabled, or when it orders a hearing to
 17 determine the best interests of a child when the parent of the child
 18 revokes a consent to the adoption of such child and such revocation is
 19 opposed or in any adoption or custody proceeding if it determines that
 20 assignment of counsel in such cases is mandated by the constitution of
 21 this state or of the United States, the court may assign counsel to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09004-01-5

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 1 represent such person if it is satisfied that [he] such person is finan-
 2 cially unable to obtain counsel. Upon an appeal taken from an order
 3 entered in any such proceeding, the appellate court may assign counsel
 4 to represent such person upon the appeal if it is satisfied that [he]
 5 such person is financially unable to obtain counsel.
 6 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 35 of the judiciary law, as amended by
 7 section 3 of part GG of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to
 8 read as follows:
 9 4. In any proceeding described in paragraph a of subdivision one